April 2006

I was not online this weekend, and I missed this! ibiblio proposes BLiNG tag to W3C
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Google Maps continues to innovate: API Version 2 released #

Wikipedia article of the day: Mecanum wheel (go here for a video) #

When did IBM start making out hardcore with PHP? Recommended PHP reading list #

This is so cool. The Search For A Domain Name (but .com’s are like so 1998) #

Check out the third most powerful woman in the world‘s awesome hairdo! #

Part of CA-1 slowly sliding into the ocean: Devil’s Slide on the move #

Word of the day: Mise-en-abyme (learned this one from Stephanie after showing her the transparent screens set on flickr)

More info from Wikipedia, en français ou en anglais #

Apple advertising dual booting on a Mac? Is this a belated April Fools? #

O’Reilly alumnus Tony will be giving a talk on web 2.0 at the Sonoma County Web Developers group, Wed Apr 11, 6:30pm #

Someone adds the Exodus Billboard Parody story to Wikipedia (I corrected a few factual errors and expanded on the details) #

This looks interesting: I Am A Sex Addict

Update: I thought he looked familiar. Caveh Zahedi was one of the characters in Waking Life.
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Brilliant! Nihilst job resume #

Useful! How to Patch WordPress #

I feel righteous. I just submitted a bug report with a patch to WordPress: wptexturize function curlifies quotes in script blocks #

Cool! Online TypeNavigator #

Uh-oh: Libby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak #

Yesterday’s phrase of the day: pain point (apparently there are a lot of these…) #

Harry Taylor, aka John Q. Public, speaking truth to President Bush yesterday:

You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food. If I were a woman, you’d like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice and decision about whether I can abort a pregnancy on my own behalf.

Average people have to turn the tide! #

For future reference: XAMPP for Windows (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and more!) #

Camping is a small web framework, less than 4k, a little white blood cell in the vein of Rails. Wait, is that good…or bad? #

A competitor to the venerable Colour Wizard? Color Tool #

Perhaps the single most anticipated return to blogging evar: Mark Pilgrim is back! (after a year and a half absense) #

How do we remove Bush/Cheney from office? [Patrick] Fitzgerald said the grand jury has collected so much testimony and so many documents that “it is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to ‘punish’ [Joseph] Wilson.” #

Word of the day: Straphanger #

Ha! Best satirical wine review ever:

It was brilliant, with hints on the nose of Polish sausage, powerful chronic cultivated on the warm, gentle, rain-swept, drug-addled upland slopes of Maui, cordite (the kind that lingers in the air after firing 3-400 rounds in an enclosed space) and petroleum. On the palate I detected turkey, shrimp shells and Samuel Adams Holiday Brew.

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Surprisingly hard to spell: versatile #

Arrrg! Beware the pirates of words matey! #

LOL! My buddy, Dan, has a lemon tree. This tree has produced a few odd lemons in its time, but we are now convinced it was probably planted over a portal to Hell. #

Wait, Bjork and Barney are a couple? Bjork in a scene from “Drawing Restraint 9,” a film by her partner, Matthew Barney #

Justinsomnia in the blogs today: WordPress Blog Archives.. Mapped! on Google Maps Mania and „double low-9 quotation mark„ on The Huffington Post (well, tech.huffingtonpost.com to be precise). Thanks for the love! #

I created a claimID account which is Fred Stutzman and co.’s brainchild back in NC. Kind of like del.icio.us for narcissists. #

I forgot to mention this. The real victory in the whole parody dispute that unfolded over the last month was Ex-Gay Watch putting my parody back up on their blog. Rock on.

Free speech is safe for another day. #

Hehe: If you could be a CGI performer like Serkis, what would you want to become? (it’s CG!) #

Heh! putting your car keys in your leftover bag of lunch at work will prevent you from going home without your leftovers #

Wikipedia article of the day: McMansion #

On feeling ‘stuck’ with Blogger: Moving from Blogger to WordPress is easier than most people think. You can do it yourself if you’re good with code and MySQL. Justin over at Justinsomnia gives a great overview of the steps you’ll need to take. #

OK, how did I not know this existed? JPG Magazine (And more importantly, how many other things do I not know exist?) #

Yay, Haughey revs Ten Years of [his] Life

and here’s Fred Benenson, another photo blogger using image maps for navigation #

Poetry, pure poetry: Considerin’ der amount o’ non-stop rain we’ve bin gettin’ out here in northern California, the fook it amazes me tha’ der Laguna de Santa Rosa hasn’t flooded over Occidental Road again. (Translate your own: Universal Translator) #

Mozilla is working very very hard to increase Firefox’s mindshare. It appears to be working: Wheee! (thanks Dawn!) #

So cool. New York Times + Google Maps: 36 Hours #

WTF? Iowa Mumps Epidemic

I totally forget, what is mumps again? #

Cool, using Greasemonkey to encrypt feed content: Secure Syndication (from etech this year) #

Oh my god, this is what happens when bloggers get married: kottke.org + megnut.com 4evar #

GAG! awesomr #

Word of the day: dewlap #

Watch this video: Adam Sandler singing and Nick Swardson have a secret… #

You’re going to LOVE this! Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, started revising the Wikipedia entry on Exodus to his liking. Oops, that would be against the rules. #

Cool: Pinhole camera in a truck! #

Acronym of the day: AHAH #

Photos: Israeli Female Soldiers (with guns) #

To continue reading later: Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain #

Crossed my radar: bzr (via Sam Ruby) #

Another acronym of the day: CSRF (pronounced “sea surf”) (apparently WordPress is vulnerable?) #

To read/refer to later: There are really two kinds of HTTP. One is HTTP-For-Browsers, and one is HTTP-For-APIs. Robert Sayre, commenting on Dare Obasanjo’s blog #

RAWK! Rabbit ambulance tattoo! #

Prediction: something4.us will be the del.cio.us of political domain names. (btw, Anton’s dad is running for Congress in Hawaii!) #

dereferencing URIs is the new, umm, “So I went to this webpage…” #

All of a sudden people are talking about “the Carsons” like they’re a family of folk-singers. Nope: Carson Systems Ltd. #

Check it out, we published a WordPress article today: From Weblog to CMS with WordPress #

Whoa! Be your own bank #

Heh: Google Maps is Google Maps once again #

Photo of the day: building demolition (from Tim Bray) #

I love that there is an article in Wikipedia called The Mother of All Demos #

Quote of the day: Being able to witness firsthand how our species develops is probably the most amazing thing I will ever do with my life. #

Wang Wenyi arrested at the White House for shouting President Hu, your days are numbered. President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong. You go girl, show Bush and Hu what free speech sounds like! #

Word of the day: simulacrum #

Hmm: Art School Confidential (looks like that dude from the adam sandler “secret” video is in it) #

Musing of the day: I’m not sure that most personal weblogs should remain for longer than a few years. We all change over time… —Shelley Powers #

How to get tha tab key to work inside a textarea with javascript #

Plugin to consider: Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress #

Wikipedia article of the day: Anamorphic widescreen #

Yeah, I watched this twice: Wes Anderson American Express Ad (what if all commercials were this good?) #

Canon is offering a $100 rebate on the Rebel XT (pdf), bringing the body-only price down to $590 (through July 15).

Add a decent lens (EF 28mm f/1.8 USM), a 2GB compactflash card, and a skylight filter and we’re talking about $1100, after the rebates. Worth the investment? #

To listen to later: Adam Bosworth: Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services #

Ok, I have done my geeky duty: EFF’s RIAA Petition signed, MoveOn’s Network Neutrality Petition signed (maybe you should do the same?) #

It’s not French, and there are no ROUSs, but it’s got a Platypus: E-VOUS (actually I’m not sure what it is) #

Alright already, I’ll freaking read The Death and Life of Great American Cities #

Loving this song right now! Two Gallants – Age of Assassins #

NEWSFLASH!

Sonoma County airport, Horizon officially announce return of commercial air service

Seattle-based Horizon Air plans to begin three daily flights from [Charles M. Schulz — Sonoma County Airport], two to Los Angeles and one to Seattle scheduled for March 2007.

(hat tip: Marcia) #

Anyone want to blow $425 (tax-deductible) with me to take a ride in a B-17, B-24, or B-25 bomber?

Wings of Freedom will be in Napa May 24-25 and Santa Rosa June 5-7 #

Well, now that it’s got its own WordPress-powered blog, I finally decided to listen to the It’s Carrboro rap #

This is neat: Interlocking Loft (more here, via Kottke) #

Sounds just like Simon and Garfunkel, and I luv it! The Kings of Convenience – Homesick #

News from Chapel Hill: Apple Chill killed (end of an era) #

Google buys SketchUp SketchUp for Google Earth. Side effect: we get it for personal use for free. #

HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (so basically you’re saying XML is hard, right?) #

Haha on the feedvalidator mailing list:

Anyway, I’m not going to go all “feedvalidator is dead to me” over this. Just wanted to raise my concerns and see what you thought. —James Holderness

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IM/email acronym of the day: IIRC (I shouldn’t even be allowed near a computer for not knowing this) #